The FBI is normally conservative, but in October 2019 a spokesperson took a leap of faith, naming wheelchair-bound septuagenarian Samuel Little as America's most prolific serial-killer of all time with more than fifty confirmed and ninety-three claimed kills. He is but one of the individuals with the dubious distinction of being an elite in a league of serial killers, each with scores of confirmed murders. In this collection, you'll find fifteen true crime stories about some of history's most infamous "extreme killers." Historical in breadth, the book's subjects range from fifteenth-century French child-killer Gilles de Rais, the purported inspiration for the folk legend of "Bluebeard," to Harold Frederick Shipman Jr., a British licensed physician addicted to murder who is believed to have killed more than 250 patients between 1975 and 1998. Includes: "The Blood Countess": Erzsébet Bathory, Hands of Death: Henry Lucas and OTTIS Toole, "Monster of the Andes": Pedro Lopez, Green River: Gary Ridgeway, "The Werewolf": Mikhail Popkov and more Book jacket.